Is it a pipe or not?

Today in class Mr. Schick took a lot of time talking about philosophy and how you think about what you are thinking about. He showed us a pipe and asked what it is. The real answer was supposed to be a painting of a pipe. While I thought it was a horn of some sorts. Then we took a look at what ancient civilizations had in common and that was they were all surrounded by a body of water. Then we took a look at a map of ancient Greece and determined that it was the same as the other civilizations.

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